Mermaids : art, symbolism and mythology /

Title:

Mermaids : art, symbolism and mythology /

Author:

Müller, Axel (Professor in mineralogy and petrology), author.

Format:

Book, Image

Institution:

MassArt

Contents:

1. Introduction: Why mermaids? -- 2. Mermaids conceived: hybrid goddesses and beasts in antiquity -- 3. Christian adaptations in the Romanesque to Baroque eras -- 4. Mermaid passions: obsessive fixation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art -- 5. Mermaids everywhere: postwar commercialization and trivialization -- 6. Mermaids rationalized: evolutionary theory confronts the fantastic.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

MassArt Main
GR910 .M85 2022 – Available

• Available Temporarily at MassArt Reserves
  On reserve for HART 259: Tricksters, Heroes, Monsters (Art History: Correll)